Following his higher education in the Hungarian military, he graduated from the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst with a 270-year-long history. After that he obtained postgraduate degrees and PhD degree from several Hungarian military and civilian universities. He began his military career in 1993, served on the battlefield in Operation Iraqi Freedom and in Afghanistan, and spent most of his career creating and developing the special operational capabilities of the Hungarian Armed Forces.

Since July 2011, he has served in the United States at NATO's Strategic Transformation Command, serving as a representative of NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (SACT) at the Pentagon, liaising with the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Department of Defense, and key research institutes in Washington.

During his stay in the United States, he completed a senior management course at Harvard University and gained a degree in organizational innovation from Stanford University. Since 2018, he has led the transformation work of the Hungarian Armed Forces in the field of defense innovation as the Deputy Director of Research, Development and Innovation of the National Armament Director.

In connection with special operational capability development, he is an expert in guerrilla warfare and counter-terrorism, the related leadership theory — unconventional mission-based leadership —, he conducts researches, publishes regularly and gives lectures on transformational management in V.U.C.A., as well as innovative methods of organizational transformation and its applicability in business.

Imre's first book Serve to lead! was published in 2016, his second book, The Art of Strategy, was published in May 2019. He joined the MCC team in October 2020 as the Director of the Academy for Leading Change.